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VentureBeat posts exhaustive history of Xbox 360 tech problems

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 18 Comments »

VentureBeat's posted a lengthy article going into depth on Xbox 360's red ring of comedy woes. Snip: Microsoft replaced these machines for free under the warranty that it announced on July ... Read more..

£500m bill for Xbox red ring of death

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 22 Comments »

Oh dear. English newspaper The Daily Mirror is reporting that Xbox 360 Elite consoles are also suffering from the now infamous RroD. The report also says that Microsoft will face a ... Read more..

The reason behind 360’s RROD: “Microsoft wanted to avoid an ASIC vendor”

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Trade, Xbox 360 | 28 Comments »

Speaking at the Design Automation Conference in California this week, Bryan Lewis, research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner, said that the reason Microsoft was forced to admit Xbox ... Read more..

360 failure rate is probably higher than 16%, says warrantee firm

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Retail, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »

According to this, SquareTrade, the company that made headlines earlier this month for claiming that Xbox 360 has a hardware failure rate of around 16 percent, has now made a ... Read more..

16% Xbox 360 failure rate is “suspect”, says Microsoft

Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »

Microsoft's responded to a warranty firm that claimed that 16 percent of Xbox 360s it covered end up broken, based on a sample of 1,000 machines. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft wasn't exactly ... Read more..

Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, says report

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »

According to this, warrantee firm SquareTrade has reported that, based on 1,000 warrantees, Xbox 360 has a current failure of 16.4 percent, 60 percent of which is the much-publicised red ... Read more..

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